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The Earl of Beaconsfield . E-book. Formato EPUB
James Anthony Froude
edizioni James Anthony Froude collana , 2015
Carlyle, speaking to me many years ago of parliamentary government as he had observed the working of it in this country, said that under this system not the fittest men were chosen to administer our affairs, but the ‘unfittest.’ The subject of the present memoir was scornfully mentioned as an illustration; yet Carlyle...
The Reign of Mary Tudor. E-book. Formato EPUB
James Froude
edizioni Ozymandias Press collana , 2016
The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes. It is true that nearly 300 persons were burnt at the stake in her short reign....